Gummersbach secured a narrow victory over HSG Wetzlar in the Bundesliga, winning 36-33 on Sunday afternoon. The match took place at Wetzlar's home ground on September 20th, with the visitors taking all three points from a game defined by end-to-end handball. By then you could see this was going to be one of those fixtures — nothing decided early, everything hanging on the final moments.
The result shifts the table slightly, with Gummersbach moving to twelfth place on three points from four games. Wetzlar remain seventeenth, still without a win, sitting on just one point after their first defeat of the campaign. To be fair, neither side had much to separate them before kick-off, and this was going to be a tight affair.
We had called for the away side to prevail, backing Gummersbach with sixty-one percent confidence. It came good, though not without a fight — Wetzlar refused to surrender, and the scoreline tells you that.
Wetzlar's recent record makes this loss harder to swallow. They had drawn three of their previous four league matches, including a 31-31 stalemate against Eisenach, and looked capable of building something. But they lost their last outing 38-30 away to Magdeburg, and this result adds to a pattern of games where they have something to lose.
Gummersbach's form has been steadier — one win, two draws, one loss from four matches. They came into this game after a 33-28 defeat in Berlin, and this victory gives them something to build on.
